Abstract
The Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu first came to international prominence at the end of the 1990s through the exhibiting of a number of artworks, made by them as individuals and in collaboration with one another, involving spectacular acts of violence against living animals as well as the bodies of dead animals and human babies. These works, including Curtain (1999) and Link of the Body (2000) (photographic images of which were disseminated in the catalogue to the now notorious ‘Fuck Off —Uncooperative Stance’ exhibition held at the Eastlink Gallery in Shanghai in 2000), can be interpreted as neo avant-garde attempts both to transgress and to question the legitimacy of established moral boundaries .
Published in Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts 74 (Brisbane: Eyeline Publishing-University of Queensland), pp. 45–49.
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Gladston, P. (2016). Collaboration as Struggle and Non-cooperation. In: Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art. Chinese Contemporary Art Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_16
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